Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Peanut butter cookies

This time I tried my hand at peanut butter cookies. I found these cookies at Baking blonde and surely she described them perfectly. These were delicious. I only made half the quantity. I tried to be a bit creative and so I flavoured these cookies with different ingredients. I copied the recipe from http://bakingblonde.wordpress.com/2008/06/15/the-best-peanut-butter-cookies-period/they and just made my adjustments in brackets. Fllow the link for more hints and tips on baking these cookies. I bet the original recipe is even more delicious since it uses peanut butter chips that here I couldn't find any. So here's the recipe:
The Original Peanut Butter
Cookie tweaked by bakingblonde
1 cup + 2 TBS peanut butter (I used crunchy)
1/2 cup butter, softened
1/4 cup white sugar
3/4 cup packed brown sugar
1 egg
2 TBS milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup Peanut Butter chips (didn’t use these)1
1/2 cup Chocolate Chips (used chopped chocolate)
3/4 cup Sugar (for rolling dough balls, may need more or less)
(some chopped peanuts for rolling)

Preheat oven to 350.
Line baking sheets with parchement paper.
In a large mixing bowl, cream together the peanut butter, butter.
Once combined beat in the white sugar, and brown sugar until well blended. Beat in the egg, milk, and vanilla.
In a large bowl wisk together the flour, baking powder, and salt.
Gently add to creamed mixture and mix until almost combined.
Fold in chocolate and peanut butter chips.
Chill dough for at least 15 minutes.Roll tablespoonfuls of dough into balls.
Genlty roll the dough balls into sugar and place dough balls on parchment lined baking sheets. Carefully press each ball with fork tines to create a criss-cross pattern.
Bake for 8 to 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are lightly browned.
Remove from oven and cool on baking sheets for 5-10 minutes until sturdy enough to be transfered to a wire rack to cool completely.
Makes about 30 cookies

37 comments:

Y said...

Love peanut butter cookies! Your variations are so cute.

Mermaid Sews said...

So cute and creative. I love PB, nice job.

anchan said...

Oh my, those look soooo delicious! I love peanut butter anything, could eat that whole batch in one go!! Mmmmmm...

apparentlyjessy said...

I went off cookies...then I made those ANZAC biscuits and now I have my cookie mojo back! I think these look good and should really try cooking em!

Katie said...

These look so good. I love all the added extra chunks. Send a few my way.

Rosetta said...

Sembrano buoni, me li farò tradurre.
Mandi

Mary said...

wow so nice to munch on !

nightfairy said...

Mi piacciono tantissimissimooooo!Bravissima!

i dolci di laura said...

devo proprio dire che me li mangerei tutti!

Marthe said...

Hey Natalie,

Just wanted to let you know I received your package and absolutely love the necklace with the Maltese cross, it's gorgeous. Thank you sooo much!I'll be blogging about it this week.

Federica Simoni said...

wow ma sono stupendi! complimenti per tutte le belle ricette!!

Amaradolcezza said...

buonissimi... che posso chiederti se potresti dirmi a quanti gr corrispondono i cup??
li vorrei fare ma non so che proporzioni usare..
buonissimi

clare @ the pretty walrus said...

A friend pointed me in the direction of your blog and we later discovered you're Maltese too! Love your blog and will certainly be trying those peanut butter cookies!

You might have a good laugh at this site too: http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com

Will be following your blog!

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Lorraine @NotQuiteNigella said...

They look delish! I think I'd go for the one quotes with chopped up peanuts just to upp the peanut flavour :D

Anonymous said...

Oh I love your ideas added to the recipe! YUM, the pictures say it all!
I also recommend if adding PB chips to use Reese's PB chips, the generic ones are horrible!

Barbara Bakes said...

I love all the different versions. I don't know how someone would pick just one!

Brilynn said...

I just posted recently about my favourite kind of peanut butter cookie, with oatmeal and chocolate chips!

Finla said...

Wow such a variety of desings on top, cookies looks super yumm.

Sweet Treats by Dani said...

your variations look GREAT :):):):)

PheMom said...

All of those versions look awesome!

How To Eat A Cupcake said...

Mmm I bet the crunchy peanut butter was GREAT in these!

Anonymous said...

I love peanut butter cookies, plain and simple :)

My Ricettarium said...

Ciao Nat!!!!! ma che bei biscottini :-))))

Morena said...

belli belli belli e sicuramente buonissimi!!!bravaaa...

a quando un blog in italiano???copierei tutte le tue ricette!!!...hihih!!

scherzo!!!

bacioni!!

panettona said...

che settacolo le tue ultime creazioni! complimenti!

Hannah said...

PB cookies are always welcome in this house, and all of those variations sound great!

Dewi said...

One will never get enough of PB cookies,especially if the cookies look like yours.
Cheers,
elra

Sharon said...

I love all your variations! Quite lovely.

Mammazan said...

Ho un mezzo barattolo di burro di arachidi e tu con questa ricetta mi hai dato veramente una bella idea!!
Compliments

Jacque said...

Oooh, I love peanut butter cookies of any kind. All of yours look fantastic!!

Roby said...

Questi stai sicura che te li copio, mio marito adora il burro d'arachidi!Brava

farida said...

My daughter loves peanut butter and I am sure she will love this recipe. Yum!

Anonymous said...

mmmmm cookie goodness!

My Sweet & Saucy said...

Those cookies look sooo delicious!

eatme_delicious said...

These look SO good! Like a little package of gourmet cookies.

Jerri at Simply Sweet Home said...

All of these look super yummy!

Anonymous said...

I have these same cookies starred in my reader. I love all of your variations!